Agriculture has always been a huge part of life in Nebraska, and thanks to the photographic archives on Yale University’s website, we have access to vintage photos of what farm life used to look like here. In many ways, it is recognizable from what you see today (a cow is always, invariably, a cow), but things have definitely progressed a bit. Check out these amazing old photos of farm life in Nebraska.
- Imagine the long walk up the dusty, windy road to this ranch in Dawson County. Marion Post Wolcott captured this photograph in 1941.
Marion Post Wolcott/ Yale
- A charming farm sits among its expansive fields in Douglas County, 1936.
Arthur Rothstein/ Yale
- Photographer Arthur Rothsstein captured this shot in Box Butte County in 1936.
Arthur Rothstein/ Yale
- Cows are herded into a barn for milking.
Marion Post Wolcott/ Yale
- A farmer milks the cows, 46 in total; this dairy farm was located at a co-op in Waterloo.
Marion Post Wolcott/ Yale
- Sod houses stand in Alliance, 1936.
Arthur Rothstein/ Yale
- A silo and grain storage in Waterloo, 1941.
Marion Post Wolcott/ Yale
- This farmhouse in Scotts Bluff County was abandoned long before this photograph was taken.
Marion Post Wolcott/ Yale
- This farmhouse stood in Sheridan County, in the northwest part of Nebraska.
John Vachon/ Yale
- Pigs at a farm in Waterloo.
Marion Post Wolcott/ Yale
- Here are some really old-school poultry houses at a farm in Waterloo.
Marion Post Wolcott/ Yale
- The barn and feeding pens at Tom Reed farm in Lexington form an antiquated landscape.
Marion Post Wolcott/ Yale
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Marion Post Wolcott/ Yale
Arthur Rothstein/ Yale
John Vachon/ Yale
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